Foreword
Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix
Thirty years ago, four Australian artists wrote a rambling stream-of-consciousness text with inspirations ranging from French feminist theory and the cyberpunk writings of William Gibson to Donna Hara…Through its history, cyberfeminism has often been defined by what it is expressly not. [^87] Coined in the early 1990s by the British cultural theorist Sadie Plant [^122] and VNS Matrix, the word “cyberfeminism” takes on its prefix “cyber”—…
William Gibson
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William Gibson is a foundational cyberpunk author whose speculative fiction imagined networked computing, virtual reality, and digital culture before they existed materially, thereby shaping how theorists and artists conceptualize technology's social futures. In this course, Gibson's work provides the literary and imaginative scaffolding that cyberfeminists like VNS Matrix drew upon to articulate how technology, feminism, and embodiment intersect, moving beyond mere technological determinism toward politically engaged artistic practice.
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